Custom Fertility

Custom Fertility is not a surrogacy agency in the usual sense. It describes itself as a third-party fertility search service that looks for an egg donor, sperm donor or surrogate on behalf of intended parents, drawing on the databases of other organizations rather than recruiting and managing its own surrogates. In a surrogacy journey, that places it at the front end: the search and match, before intended parents sign with the agency that will carry the case forward.

According to its website, the service curates donor candidates from more than 50 trusted agencies across the United States. For surrogacy, the agency says it contacts agencies directly and presents pre-screened candidates who fit the intended parents' criteria, places no-fee 24 to 48 hour holds on surrogate profiles while parents consider them, and gathers the relevant agency contracts and cost sheets so parents can review terms side by side. It also facilitates submission of a "Dear Surrogate" letter from intended parents. Egg donor and sperm donor searches are offered alongside the surrogate search.

The business is for-profit and appears to be run by its founder and chief executive, who is named on the company's team page. By the agency's own account, she came to this work after a career in business and publishing, her own experience with infertility, and roughly three years at a large US egg donor agency before starting Custom Fertility. Its materials are written in the first person, reflecting a small, founder-led operation.

Because Custom Fertility works with agencies nationwide rather than from a single regional roster, its reach is national. Costs are quoted individually rather than published, and the fees of any agency an intended parent ultimately signs with are that agency's own. Any additional details on file appear below.